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I think this man should register with INTERPOL as a sex offender.


>From: Abu-Hassan Koroma <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: "AAM (African Association of Madison)"
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>Subject: Fwd: Australian UN official charged
>Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 10:27:48 -0700
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>Australian UN official charged
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> >From correspondents in Freetown
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>August 19, 2004
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>SIERRA Leone formally charged an Australian police official today
>with sex crimes against a minor, saying the alleged offence
>occurred while he was employed as an investigator with the
>UN-backed war-crimes court.
>
>Prosecutors charged Peter Halloran, 56, with three counts of
>"unlawful carnal knowledge, indecent assault and procuring a girl
>under 14 years" during court proceedings in the West African
>nation's capital, Freetown.
>
>Judge Bankole Shyllon denied bond for Halloran, and set a next court
>date for Tuesday.
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>If convicted, Halloran faces 15 years imprisonment.
>
>Halloran's Australia-based lawyer earlier called the allegations
>baseless, and said the girl's allegations in another case had been
>proven false.
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>Halloran, who has been in Sierra Leone since January, has
>voluntarily handed his passport to local police, his lawyer said.
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>He was suspended earlier this month from his work for the court.
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>The UN tribunal is trying both rebels and government-allied fighters
>for abuses committed after late 1996 in Sierra Leone's 1991-2002
>insurgency. Thousands of civilians were killed, raped, kidnapped
>and hacked to pieces in the fight over Sierra Leone's rich diamond
>fields.
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>________________________________________________________________________
>Abu-Hassan Koroma
>Founder, President & CEO
>
>21st Century African Youth Movement
>P.O.Box 8582
>Madison, Wisconsin 53708-8582

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